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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> It sounds like she was having some sort of mental health episode - I wonder if it would have helped had the daughter requested an ambulance rather than the police? The mental health system does a good job of making people's situat
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Prosecutors have a tough job. Prosecuting people who've hurt other people is the easy part of their job. Prosecuting people who haven't hurt anyone but themselves (self-medication w/ the street pharmacy), or who've becom
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> There's something truly unique about alcohol that isn't true of any other addictive substance on the planet. Alcohol is a viable a substitute for carbohydrates for feeding nerve cells. Ethanol -> acetate -> ATP. Some re
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
This is from [2012]... When I was in teh college, I certainly didn't get enough protein, on account of my unconventional diet. I later figured out that protein deficiency was certainly the cause of the oddly-clear urine I experienced d
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> and it is impossible to establish any kind of trust with them. Once burned, twice shy. Mentally ill people are frequently harmed by the medications that they're told they have to take. Science now knows that these medications are
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> Are you claiming that choosing to indulge in drugs that you know are addictive and potentially lethal is without a moral dimension? There is usually very little to the "choice" that addicts once made. My girlfriend was inject
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Sometimes those writers have good points, sometimes they engage in propaganda campaigns to protect the medical guild's interests. For example, Hariett Hall is a regular defender science-free psychiatry. Psychiatric residents are traine
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
This article talks about absurd pricing for new patented delivery mechanisms for old generic drugs - the epipen, the evizio naloxone auto-injector (and presumably the Narcan insufflation device). Anyone who might need to deliver these drugs
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I've witnessed crack cocaine induced psychosis, before I knew anything about psychosis. People can recover from a lot of damage with the right interventions. I understand that Cocaine's effect on brain chemistry is sort-of like th
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> and unfortunately, the fact that modern medical science just does not have effective treatments available for some of these conditions. I suspect that many psychiatric illnesses are indicative of metabolic disorders, and/or malnou
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> When will culture come to its senses and realize that humans like to get high and that this will never stop? People who become addicts don't like the highs and lows of the emotional roller coaster they're on, but it's th
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I've a male friend who acknowledges that he's not the brightest bulb in the bunch. He's in a relationship with a CPA who he thinks is super-smart. They're not married anymore, but got back together after a few years of l
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> A move of desperation, no doubt. Certainly. Well-said, thanks. > cigarettes taste like shit and aren't addictive I learned from a hacker news comment that current thinking is that tobacco is addictive because of the combination
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
One of the mental hospitals gave my friend Wellbutrin. They took it away when they found her insufflating it. Thereafter they didn't care about her complaints of depression, and just forced her to take the suicide ideation pill ("
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> but when natural remedies fail, don't be afraid of medicine. SSRIs frequently create their own problems. They are sometimes effective because of their effect on the neuroactive steroids: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I enjoyed reading your story of the mental hospital. I've spent too much time visiting my friend at the mental hospitals over the past year and a half. They refused to treat her substance abuse problems, and gave her drugs that made he
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
It shouldn't be so expensive to maintain contact with those whose punishment is gratuitous. I suppose I should call my republican congressman's office on this issue. I took note of this submission from 84 days ago, but hadn't
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Corn was traditionally treated with lime to make it more nutritious: Nixtamalized maize has several benefits over unprocessed grain: it is more easily ground; its nutritional value is increased; flavor and aroma are improved; a
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> What do you mean by anti-serotonin agent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritanserin I don't have any experience with LSD or other such substances.
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
This article covers a lot more ground than just LSD... Mental health, antidepressants, PMS, the drug war, etc. LSD is a very useful anti-serotonin agent. I've been trying a different anti-serotonin chemical and have found it to be quit
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
This sounds like an apologist's explanation for an inconvenient truth. Sounds reasonable, but falls apart when confronted with actual data. (Edit: I'm sure you were paraphrasing what you'd read somewhere.) Here's a quote
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> Also, there are several MAOIs in tobacco smoke. MAOIs are used as last-line anti-depressants, because of their side-effects when taken in large doses. But with tobacco products, a user basically gets a tritrateable MAOI. Reversible MAO
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> Edited to add that I quit tobacco ~7 years ago using chantix, which I totally recommend. Unfortunately my mental ilnesses have become harder to deal with over the same period. I learned from someone here (about 4 months ago [1]) that n
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Naltrexone is a remarkable drug that actually fixes a physiological problem. Highly recommended. The others are just punishment for alcoholics.
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> What do you mean they were turned into alcoholic by methadone? Of the three alcoholics I mentioned, only one was (possibly/probably) triggered by methadone maintenance therapy. Methadone is well-known to cause sugar cravings. This
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
The alcoholics I've known have all had underlying emotional problems. One can't get over the business partner who left him holding the bag - it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for him to get the bank to leave him alone. Anot
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
John Gatto also wrote an essay titled 'Against School'. Various writers keep pointing out the futility of 'education', but the school industry is now a sacred cow that can't be killed. Against school: How public ed
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
I developed some SIBO-ish problems in the year following a shock to my metabolism. In recent years I have been making a bit of an effort to avoid certain fiber. I think your post is quite interesting, thanks for sharing!
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
Many environmental toxins are estrogenic. This means that they cause tissues to swell and divide sort-of like human estrogens. Some xenoestrogens are more toxic than others. Plant xeno-estrogens are more innocuous than industrial xenoestrog
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by tcj_phx 10y ago
> It's easier to supplement with whey or soy protein. Soy is a rather poor source of protein (phyto-estrogens, etc). Whey is a waste product of the cheese industry. (Edit: All things considered, milk is a pretty good source of prote

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